Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
The stat comparisons shown here show several vital Diana vs. Yorick matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Diana typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Yorick. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually wins when facing off against Yorick, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Diana makes a good counter for Yorick.
While Diana does have a higher winrate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Diana into Yorick.
Additionally, Diana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Diana vs Yorick matchups, Diana is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Diana is a decent counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Diana against Yorick.
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically gets less CS as Yorick. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Diana versus Yorick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Yorick than with most other common builds. In fact, Diana had an average winrate of 51.0% when countering Yorick with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Yorick as Diana, Diana players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Diana vs Yorick face-offs, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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